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October 16, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘Anti-racism’ rally in Berlin calls for destruction of Israel

Demonstrators at the march hoisted symbols in support of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

October 12, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German-Iranian consultant resigns from pro-Iran group

Pro-Israel Iranian exposed alleged IRGC business

October 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Boycott-Israel activists disrupt Holocaust film in Berlin

The activists could be seen on a video holding a sign that read, “No culture in whitewashing Apartheid.”

September 21, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

EXCLUSIVE: PayPal shuts German NGO account with links to Palestinian terrorists

The US online payment service PayPal has closed the account of the Germany-based NGO International Alliance – an organization that sympathizes with the Popular Front for the Liberation of P...

September 17, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘Arab-looking’ men attack Jewish Israeli in night club in Germany

Two men who have been described as having an Arab appearance attacked a Jewish Israeli man on September 7 in the city of Frankfurt, according to German media reports on Monday. The assoc...

August 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Bank’s Anti-Semitism Leads United Israel Appeal to Shut Account

The German branch of the Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal – the prominent Israeli public fund-raising global organization to advance the security of the Jewish state – has closed it...

August 20, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

BDS Activists Shut Down Berlin Festival Event Due to Israeli Sponsorship

Anti-Israel activists in Berlin lashed out at a podium discussion at the Pop Cultural festival opening on Thursday, disrupting the panel conversation because the Jewish state provided a small don...

July 16, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. Senators urge German bank to stop enabling antisemitic BDS campaign

Two powerful US Republican senators, both of whom ran significant campaigns for the presidency of America in 2016, weighed in on Thursday against a German bank for aiding the Boycott, Divestment...

July 13, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘No Jew in Germany’: German police assault Israeli professor

The police in the West German city of Bonn allegedly mistakenly beat an Israeli philosophy professor after a German of Palestinian origin attacked him because he was wearing kippah. Acco...

July 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austrian Jewish community leader slams chancellor for courting Iran

The president of the Jewish community in Vienna blasted Austria’s Chancellor S...

June 19, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Bank Enabling BDS may Violate its Ethical Code of Conduct

The pro-Israel group Action Forum Israel (Aktionsforum Israel) in Germany has released an eye-popping report on its website, questioning whether the Bank for Social Economy violated its internal...

June 14, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. and U.K. Bands Boycott Berlin Event Due to Israeli Embassy Donation

US singer John Maus announced his withdrawal from the Berlin Pop-Kultur music festival due to pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. He is the fourth musical act t...

June 3, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

United Israel Appeal leaving BDS-enabling bank in Germany

Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal – the premier Israeli public fund-raising global organization to advance the security of the Jewish state – has announced that its German branch wil...

May 29, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austrian government may bar Kuwait Airways because of anti-Israel bias

Kuwait Airways is slated to start flights in and out of Vienna in June. However, Austrian Economics Minister Margarete Schramböck said on Wednesday she could not rule out deny...

May 29, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Jewish shareholders call for probe into bank’s BDS-linked accounts

The Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany – a part owner of the Cologne-based Bank for Social Economy – wants the bank to open a new investigation into its alleged support of the b...

May 24, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German students ban BDS on campus at Gutenberg University

For the second time this month, German students at a large university voted to reject the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS) targeting the Jewish state, declaring BDS to be an antis...

April 16, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Eric S. Edelman

Turkey’s president is holding Americans hostage. Why aren’t we doing anything about it?

On April 16, an American pastor unjustly detained in a Turkish prison for 18 months will&n...

April 9, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

International Jewish NGOs urge German bank to stop enabling BDS

Leading establishment Jewish organizations in Europe, the United States and Israel called on the German Bank for Social Economy last week to pull the plug on its accounts held with groups that pr...

March 14, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Trevor Logan FDD Policy Brief

Turkey Abused Western Dual-Use Technology to Inject Spyware

Turkey’s leading internet service provider, Turk Telekom, in which the Turkish government...

August 25, 2017 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkey Trumps Up the Charges against the Imprisoned U.S. Pastor

Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan today issued an emergency decree giving himself the authority to trade foreign citizens held in Tu...